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Nanaimo Lakes
Nanaimo Lakes
	First Lake
	Nanaimo Lakes
Location	Regional District of Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, British Columbia
Coordinates	49°06′00″N 124°10′15″W / 49.10000°N 124.17083°W
Etymology	Snuneymuxw First Nation – city of Nanaimo
Part of	Nanaimo River
Catchment area	At least 23,000 hectares (57,000 acres)
Basin countries	Canada
Max. length	4 miles (6.4 km)
Surface elevation	210 metres (690 ft)

Nanaimo Lakes are a chain of four lakes composed of three natural—First, Second, and Third Lakes—and one man-made, dammed lake, Fourth Lake, on the upper Nanaimo River, on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.

Geography

The lakes are in a highland transitional area between the southern Vancouver Island Ranges and the Nanaimo Lowland.^[4]

The 1:50,000 topographic map quadrangle 92F1 Nanaimo Lakes, published by Natural Resources Canada, is centred on the lakes.^[3] Note that lake names do not appear on all online mapping services, and Third Lake, not listed by the Watershed Roundtable, but listed in a 1919 guide, and on the Natural Resources Canada map, may not appear on some maps at all.^[5] A lake with a dam at the north end, named "Fourth Lake", is also shown on the map. First Lake and Second Lake, at c. 210 metres above sea level,^[3] are connected by a short stream.^[6] Fourth Lake Dam is privately owned and impounds 38,000,000 cubic metres (1.3×10⁹ cu ft) of water, used for a paper mill.^[7]

First Lake 49°05′45″N 124°10′00″W / 49.09583°N 124.16667°W / 49.09583; -124.16667 (First Lake),^[3] natural, about 2 miles (3.2 km) long^[6]
Second Lake 49°05′45″N 124°13′00″W / 49.09583°N 124.21667°W / 49.09583; -124.21667 (Second Lake),^[3] natural, about 2 miles (3.2 km) long^[6]
Third Lake 49°05′10″N 124°19′12″W / 49.08611°N 124.32000°W / 49.08611; -124.32000 (Third Lake),^[8] natural, much smaller than the others
Fourth Lake 49°03′31″N 124°25′12″W / 49.05861°N 124.42000°W / 49.05861; -124.42000 (Fourth Lake),^[9] a reservoir, about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) long and 2 km² in area^[10]

Parks and recreation

Timberwest owns four campsites on private land surrounding First Lake.^[11] The lake was stocked with up to 30,000 salmon or trout per year for recreational fishing beginning in 1905 through the early 21st century.^[12]^[13]^[6] Fourth Lake can be kayaked.^[10]

Nanaimo Lakes fire balloon

In March, 1945, a Fu-Go balloon bomb made in Yamaguchi Prefecture and launched from Japan landed at the lakes. Its firing circuits malfunctioned; it failed to detonate and was recovered and analyzed by a Canadian–American intelligence effort.^[14]

References

^ ^a ^b "Nanaimo Lakes". Geographical Names database. Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
^ "Watershed protection". City of Nanaimo. 30 August 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Map 092F01, "Nanaimo Lakes" digital raster, published by Natural Resources Canada, 7th edition, March 24, 2011; accessed via ftp 2018-07-10
^ Yorath 2005, p. 17.
^ "Nanaimo River Watershed: location". Nanaimo River Watershed Roundtable. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Williams 1919, p. 70.
^ Butler et al. 2014, p. 9.
^ "Third Lake". BC Geographical Names database. Province of British Columbia Geographical Names Office. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
^ "Fourth Lake". BC Geographical Names database. Province of British Columbia Geographical Names Office. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Fourth Lake", Canoe & Kayak Paddling on Vancouver Island, retrieved 10 July 2018
^ "Nanaimo Lakes campsites". Timberwest. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
^ "Fish stocking report – Nanaimo Lakes, Vancovuer Island". Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
^ Pochin 1946, p. 75.
^ Coen 2014, p. 157.